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Champers Challenge: Champ Cans

January 24, 2012
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Here at FYA HQ, we drink champers on a regular basis. In fact, if we actually had an office, and that office actually had a water cooler, it would be filled with deliciously fizzy champagne. And our cooler breaks would be AWESOME. Also, we’d have a lot more typos in our posts. The point is, [...]

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How to get drunk like Lady Grantham (or: How to be a LadyNerd: Downton Abbey Edition, Part 1)

January 12, 2012
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Greetings, LadyNerds! It’s been a few days since the (legal) airing of Downton Abbey season 2 began on PBS here in the States, so I hope you’ve all had time to catch up (consider this your mild spoiler warning!). If you haven’t popped over to our brother site Badass Digest to chime in on the [...]

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The Official FYA Breaking Dawn, Part 1 Drinking Game

November 18, 2011
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ARE Y’ALL READY FOR THIS?!!!  No, seriously, are y’all ready for the insanity that is going to go down in this movie?!!!  Need a drink (or ten) to help you prepare/get through it?  Well, last night Posh and I braved the cold (haha, who am I kidding, we’re in Austin!) and the lines to see [...]

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FYA and the Drafthouse: A Love Story

November 17, 2011
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Happy Breaking Dawn pt 1 Midnight Release Day, cats and kittens!  Has everyone readied themselves for cecarean dentata by sharpening their canines and steeling their stomachs against gore and bad acting?  I surely hope so.  For those of you who are braving the crowds of Twilight fans lined up to watch the movie at midnight, [...]

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The Official FYA Drinking Game: The Vampire Diaries, Season 3

October 20, 2011
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What up, TVD party people?!!  Are y’all ready for some serious Drinking Shirtlessness er, AWESOME TELEVISION tonight?!!!!  I sure am!!! Since the writers of The Vampire Diaries don’t rest on their laurels with the same old plot lines, we here at FYA, TVD central can’t either, so we’ve come up with the amended Official Drinking [...]

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Liz Wakefield: Professional Jock Matchmaker (Sweet Valley High 51-55)

October 7, 2011
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 Happy Friday, you guys!!  I have to say, I’m feeling a SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT on this fine Friday afternoon.  Not life accomplishment (that’s sort of a topsy-turvy mess at the moment) and not Productive Human accomplishment (my apartment is a disaster zone), but FYA Accomplishment. Why, you ask?  Because I have been sitting on this [...]

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the answer, my friends, is petals on the wind (chapters 6-8)

August 26, 2011
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You guys!  Happy Freaking Friday! We’ve all survived our first week back at school or, if you are not a student or teacher, you survived your week in general, and that’s also important.  I feel like we need to celebrate.  I, for one, plan to get a bit tipsy this evening!  However, since I did [...]

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The Official FYA Drinking Game for Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 2

July 15, 2011
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YOU GUYS!!!!!!  It’s here!  The final installment of Harry Potter!  To commemorate this end of an era, we at FYA will do what we always do: cry softly into our beers make a drinking game! Now, I have to share, I feel like I’ve gone up against my very own Deatheater this week, in the [...]

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Peace, man, cool, hey, the babysitter’s here: BSC 1-3

June 27, 2011
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Once upon a time, I was sitting in a restaurant in NYC with Erin, Jenny, Posh and Lenore, sharing a delightful dinner of duck sausage and black rice, steak frites, an amazing asparagus dish I can no longer remember due to the delicious cocktails I also consumed, discussing Sweet Valley High and our various ongoing [...]

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My So-Called Liver

June 17, 2011
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In the coming months, I have the honor of watching –and sharing with you readers my thoughts about– My So-Called Life.  I KNOW, you don’t have to tell me I drew the long stick on this one!  I mean, getting to re-watch the show that encapsulated the feelings of self-aware teens of the 1990′s the [...]

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